So the idea is to purge all memory of Native Americans?
I wonder which account rep Adidas will send to meet with Florida State to make a pitch?
Perhaps it’s time to go full retard PC and have PETA target all university mascots, disguised as small to large-sized mammalians or reptiles, with “micro-aggression.” New York Law firms are probably lining up the class action suits right now.
Done with Adidas.
Does this include the Navajo High School Redskins in Arizona?
Yes, we must expunge all reminders of “Native Americans” (the “We Got Here Before You!” crowd)!
Change all place names!
Close all reservations!
Close the Bureau of Indian Affairs (yep, it is still called that - @ $2.9 Billion annually)!
Or, we could simplify everything.
All school mascots must be either “Clovis People” or “Newbies!
A few diehard New Englanders will probably insist on using “Mayflowers” until the SCOTUS sends in the Federal Marshalls to confiscate all the goofy hats and large buckle shoes.
/s
[in case you are wondering, PETA has placed all animal names “Off-Limits!”]
Consider one of the first to go after a concerted nearly decade-long running court battle with the NCAA was the warrior from the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux".
Never mind that the design was drawn by Bennett Brien and here, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
The Spirit Lake Sioux elders approved the design.
After years of fighting with the NCAA and others who somehow found a design created by an American Indian, and approved by American Indians, and reflective of a warrior heritage, embraced by the attendees at the University to be somehow "demeaning", now some tinpot sneaker manufacturer wants the design rights to the new logos for these schools?
Pi$$ OFF!
I would think that a stone age people that had no use for the wheel, used their dogs for transport and food would be eternally grateful to the folks that brought them horses, cattle, pigs, central heating, firearms and a thousand other things, and take some pride in the fact that we honor them at all.
By 1502, the Florentine merchant and explorer Amerigo Vespucci had figured out that Columbus was wrong, and word of a New World had spread throughout Europe. America was later named for Vespucci.
Big game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama tomorrow. Oh man, that town is named after a famous Indian chief and the state is named after tribe. What to do, what to do? What do the PC police say about that?
A company headquartered in former Nazi Germany should be advising no one on nothing.
I find the Adidas logo offensive. Let us protest!
The Seminole Indian tribe of Florida laughs at this.
Only a lefty thinks an honor is offensive. They have sick minds.
Victory of style over substance, an utter waste of time and money, and empty-headed nonsense.
Do Native Americans really understand why this is being encouraged? What is actually means, long term, for Native Americans?
Who is behind it? Progressives/Liberals/Leftists, and they are slowing erasing the Native American culture, one mascot at a time.
Anything Progressives/Liberals/Leftists supposedly do out of the goodness of their hearts has an underlying purpose.
Wake up while you still have a culture to wake up to.
Progressives/Liberals/Leftists are so proficient at the way they operate, look at what they got primarily Republicans to do in the South — get rid of the Confederate flag. Oh, and a few statues of Confederate heroes.
A German company wishing to help ‘rid’ American sports teams of native American symbols, (which as a true half-beed I’m ok with), should stay home and fix their own mess.
Adidas ought to worry more about getting their heads chopped off by invading Moslems in Germany. That they’re pushing this crap tells me that they’re brainwashed, insane liberals, towing the PC line to the bitter end. When the Adidas executives are lined up for execution, they’ll cry their little eyes out and never understand why they’re about to die. They really believe that political correctness will save them.